The Escape Room Manchester: The Secret Lab

By | March 20, 2019

by The Escape Room Manchester (website)

1-7 Chapel Street, M3 7NJ

Manchester

2-5 players

60 minutes

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You are a news reporter assigned to cover a suspicious incident at a local estate. You find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curling screams from one of the rooms. You soon learn that medical technicians in the building have been infected by something sinister. As a number of technicians were viciously attacked, they try to escape with your news crew, only to find that MI6 have quarantined the entire estate. Internet, televisions and mobile access have been cut-off and officials are not relaying any information to those locked inside. You discover that something terrible has happened and the authorities are trying to conceal the truth. Beware! This is our most difficult room and you only have sixty minutes to find your way out and escape from the premises.
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nathgreen21 rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Ksen experienced rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Played: 2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
intenseplainunoriginal😨creepy
Mark Greenhalgh expert rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Played: 27/03/15

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A review of three rooms at The Escape Room in Manchester. As with most of the games at this chain, they were linear, relied heavily on darkness and didn't generally produce puzzles that impressed. The one highlight between them was the Secret Lab, a game that used to be raved about but even that is showing its age.

Only about 5 puzzles in the whole game and a GM who comes in when clues are requested. Broke out with over 25 mins left of a 5 star. Staff disinterested. 

A small number of tough puzzles rather than a large number of straightforward puzzles or a mixture in difficulty awaits you at Secret Lab. Can you rise to the challenge?

This room appears to no longer be open, so this review is purely for comparison.

It was billed as the 'hardest room in Estonia', and it definitely ranks as one of the hardest rooms I've tried. Unfortunately, that was partly because of gratuitous use of darkness in part of the room, and a complex final puzzle that didn't seem to make sense even when the organiser explained it.

Both our teams failed the room, and it's easy to decide that puzzles were unfair when you didn't get out; but on balan...

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